They don’t make them like Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher anymore. More’s the pity. Having marched on the French capital overthrowing…

The historian Andrew Roberts once muttered over a buttery scallop and crisp glass of white Burgundy, that it was “a…

Given their propensity to hug strangers, dress in shabby clothes and go white at the offer of a bayonet and…

Alaska has a lot of oil. It also has a lot of seals, space and domestic abuse. It doesn’t have…

The Russian nihilist movement gained momentum as a body of political change after the assassination of Alexander II, or Alexander…

Did you see the news delivered by Huw We’re out you know, no more EU! Sunderland spoke, now you better…

Christian von Ehrenfels took a taste to the particularly unsavoury notion of Yellow Peril. Von Ehrenfels was an Austrian philosopher…

That Kaiser Wilhelm II was mad as a box of frogs – and not in a good way – was…

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor. That he was the last German Emperor was entirely of his own making.…

World War I was a bloody war. A bloody war, played out in muddy trenches, fought by men whose pride…